Freetown Memorial
| Freetown Memorial | |
|---|---|
| Commonwealth War Graves Commission | |
| For Soldiers from Sierra Leone who died whilst serving with the Royal West African Frontier Force in West Africa and whose graves are not known | |
| Location | near |
| Commemorated | 1356 |
| Statistics source: Cemetery details. Commonwealth War Graves Commission. | |
The Freetown Memorial is a Commonwealth War Graves Commission war memorial located outside the Secretariate Building in Freetown, Sierra Leone.[1] The memorial generally commemorates Soldiers from Sierra Leone who died whilst serving with the Royal West African Frontier Force in West Africa and whose graves are not known. The Freetown Memorial commemorates 1,109 First World War casualties and 247 from the Second World War.[2]
West Africans who died whilst serving with the Royal West African Frontier Force in West Africa are commemorated by name on memorials in the countries of their enlistment. The Secretariat Building in Freetown was at one time the hub of colonial government in Sierra Leone.[1]
References
[edit]- ^ a b Basu, Paul (2007), "Palimpsest Memoryscapes: Materializing and Mediating War and Peace in Sierra Leone", Reclaiming Heritage Alternative Imaginaries of Memory in West Africa, p. 246
- ^ "Freetown Memorial". Commonwealth War Graves Commission. Retrieved 28 December 2013.
External links
[edit]- Traces of War: Freetown Memorial